100%. It's a simple, elegant plan for Elon and his cronies: Step 1: gut the federal workforce Step 2: secure a zillion dollars in extra contracts to perform all the functions you just gutted at a massive markup - ThreadSky

leahgreenberg.bsky.social • 102 days ago

100%. It's a simple, elegant plan for Elon and his cronies:

Step 1: gut the federal workforce

Step 2: secure a zillion dollars in extra contracts to perform all the functions you just gutted at a massive markup

Reposted from Josh Kovensky

This is the long game imo www.wsj.com/tech/musk-un...

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fugitivecourier.bsky.social•102 days ago

And with the Supreme Court having pretty much legalized bribery, a percentage of those markups will (surprise!) end up back in the hands of those awarding the contracts.

bettypf.bsky.social•102 days ago

Outsourcing is cool again!

elliosenor.bsky.social•102 days ago

He’s literally privatizing the Federal government.

vickyy.bsky.social•100 days ago

So if we can’t raise taxes on the rich, is step 3 bankrupt our country?

tonionei.bsky.social•101 days ago

The optics and distraction are always the point. It's why Republicans have long wasted energy on trying to dismantle programs that feed children and families when SNAP accounts for less than 2% of federal spending.

dajensen.bsky.social•102 days ago

We need to stop enriching the Beltway Bandits and paying three times as much for consultants as we would pay for government employees.

mathman420.bsky.social•102 days ago

Privatizing means pay more and get less. It's that simple.

krisbrown.bradyunited.org•102 days ago

Exactly. Call the agencies massively misled and inefficient, privatize them and give yourself the big contracts since you get to pick the winning bidders. How the broligarchs get richer. Corruption on a massive scale.

manneefpv.bsky.social•102 days ago

The Trump Elon administration will be one of administrative vandalism and rampant privatization.

tyroga.com•102 days ago

Australia did this, we’re getting rorted as those contractors have been found to be paid by both the government AND the companies they bring in to work for the government. And often to facilitate conversations and projects between government departments.

thinkingrealhard.bsky.social•102 days ago

It’s obvious, right?

donnalb.bsky.social•102 days ago

All I can say as the spouse of a 25 year federal employee: fuck Musk.

houndsofgeorge.bsky.social•102 days ago

cazimime.bsky.social•101 days ago

Employ federal workers whose benefits are paid for by someone else, the government.

belmontx2.bsky.social•98 days ago

Step 3: give DJT a piece of the action. Just like Vlad gets from his oligarchs.

marthehortensia.bsky.social•100 days ago

The game of oligarchs. Full stop.

mattfromchicago.bsky.social•102 days ago

obvious that privatizing/contracting government work has been the goal of conservatives for decades but just rebranding it as some kind of "innovation" by the great minds at the Department of Dogecoin

mannahattamamma.bsky.social•102 days ago

I think it's a Mao 2.0: deport migrant workers. fire civil service works. send civil service works to do the jobs that the migrant workers are no longer doing. I'm sure it's all going to work beautifully

ralschau.bsky.social•102 days ago

We are going to witness the russification of the American economy, society and politics. Peoples will has spoken.

rlspang.bsky.social•102 days ago

And not because he “needs” a zillion dollars but because he is so twisted that he thinks everything should belong to him!

josalo.bsky.social•102 days ago

Fall of the Soviet Union is all the example they need.

ghostyspook.bsky.social•102 days ago

It is almost ALWAYS cheaper to have staff than contracting

chambers711.bsky.social•102 days ago

SHID THEY LETTING him DO IT LIKE SUM DUMB ASSES. SMMFH

jstrw.bsky.social•102 days ago

Yep. The civilian workforce is much cheaper than the contractors that replace them. And the "governmental waste" is exponentially higher at the contractors. It just stays hidden from the public because it's at private companies.

starlightwishes.bsky.social•91 days ago

Yep. In other words, it's a giveaway to Rich Greedy Billionaires. Of course it means more money out of OUR pockets, so we have less to buy food and housing.

philstevens19.bsky.social•102 days ago

Step 3: use savings from eliminating federal worker protections and pensions to grow the pile of money that Elon rules naked in like Scrooge McDuck.

bethannewills.bsky.social•102 days ago

Hopefully the Americans who believe the bureaucrats are some shadowy cabal, will learn what they do, who they are and that they are their neighbors and just regular Americans. Civics classes are so badly needed right now. Schoolhouse Rock for adults too!

johnanderson2.bsky.social•98 days ago

What will the sickmen do when they have all the money and they're forced to look at their meaningless lives?

deramin.bsky.social•102 days ago

It's well known in official reports that the military could save billions of dollars a year if they just cracked down on military contractor markups. Not even cutting down on what they buy, just the graft. Musk wants all graft all the time in every agency.

thisisme7.bsky.social•102 days ago

There was a maga. I just blocked who said that, I won’t say what he called us, you know the word, need to look up Venetian Doge. This is exactly how Leon sees himself, ruler of the world.

kneeldonotheel.bsky.social•97 days ago

And fuck wsj

kneeldonotheel.bsky.social•97 days ago

Correct. NAZIGOP LIES about wants mall GOVERMENT. THEY WANT CONTRACTS to do the work. CORPORATE PIRATES.

nywonk.bsky.social•102 days ago

Step 3: Fill the positions with ignorant rubes absolutely faithful to Dear Leaders, to secure their loyalty with money.

mfte.bsky.social•101 days ago

You know what’s crazy about this. It is not a good business plan for what his companies do either:

Tesla: its main demographic are leftist and progressive climate conscious consumers. If he makes enough of us mad enough to switch to Rivian, Polestar, VW, Ford, GM, etc, who will he sell to? …

mfte.bsky.social•101 days ago

SpaceX: its main clientele are scientists, astrophysicists, military, and futurists who need to have a core belief in science and NOT moon landing and flat earth conspiracies. So you’d need the smart people at NASA and Space Force to not be pissed off and you’re cutting them.

mfte.bsky.social•101 days ago

Like where does any of this make sense?!

sophiarini.bsky.social•102 days ago

Ugh, just ugh. This is the objective, except for certain agencies which they just want to leave as hollowed out shells, like the EPA, NOAA…

mr-sshhhhh.bsky.social•102 days ago

It’s not that elegant

multredab.bsky.social•102 days ago

Halliburton

lovepeacegratitude.bsky.social•102 days ago

End game.
Musk's agenda.
Called..Occupy Mars.
Slash the government's cash stash & deposit in The Musk Occupy Mars government contract fund.

vincegay.bsky.social•101 days ago

Step 3: Enjoy the way you’ve weakened Congress if people accept DOGE as legit, and not an end run around the Constitution and the legislative branch.
Step 4: Enjoy the advantages that come with having impoverished much of the nation.

john55golf.bsky.social•102 days ago

The LNPIPAcrimefamily has spoken to them.

bygay.bsky.social•102 days ago

Because "efficiency" would be defined by the recipient of a contract. Hm.

carolinebarnes.bsky.social•102 days ago

Clear as day.

mitchelloster.bsky.social•102 days ago

Which step is the underpants?

juzbunny.bsky.social•102 days ago

Though, when you think you know what he's about, he changes to do something new, surprising and a bit more effective than you expected.

mpgutis.bsky.social•102 days ago

And when has privatization saved the government money?

neozerox4.bsky.social•102 days ago

This is definitely the plan, but it’s likely a bad one given how many people are going to be needed for this and the reasonable chance that the fired workers will refuse to work for them

thealice.bsky.social•102 days ago

It's the Russian model. They'll crash the economy, buy up the scraps, and bleed us to death while overwhelming us with bullshit.

wikisteff.bsky.social•102 days ago

The voters want peace, order, and good government, with a heavy side of economic good times.

We will see if this administration can deliver on any of these goals.

striderhlc.bsky.social•102 days ago

I think the odds that he tries to replace the administrative state with Grok are alarmingly nonzero

leastofthese.bsky.social•102 days ago

Years ago when they outsourced a lot of the work for the agency I was at, when they gave up on that and brought the fed employees back, our first order of business was spending hundreds (1000’s?) of hours literally sorting through the piles of files they left in all of the halls of the building.

leastofthese.bsky.social•102 days ago

They had just not completed the minimum amount of work that they’d been contracted to do. You often get what you pay for, and once you include a middle man that takes a cut for their own profit, you don’t even get that. 🤷🏻‍♀️

tenorune.bsky.social•102 days ago

Absolutely. His strategy is already working well v-v SpaceX & Starlink.

tenorune.bsky.social•102 days ago

But the process is already well underway with prisons and no one in power really howled about it because it effects BIPOCs more than anyone

historiken.bsky.social•102 days ago

and considerably less competently

hubie5511.bsky.social•102 days ago

Bingo, nailed it. They have no interest in cutting govt spending, they just want to spend it on themselves. This is why they’re so impressed with Putin, he and his buddies uses the whole treasury as their piggy bank. Don’t worry guys we’ll keep paying taxes, we don’t want you to be uncomfortable

wendyow.bsky.social•102 days ago

isn't how the trump family ended up transferring all the $ from Fred to the kids by creating a maintenance company for the trump organization and providing "services" at a massive markup?

sidetrackedtas.bsky.social•102 days ago

This already happened in Australia to some extent. Conservative govt gutted public service in favour of lucrative, uncompetitive consulting contracts from big 4 consulting firms. KPMG got caught using their insider knowledge of government tax policies to benefit themselves and their clients.

lilnibbler.bsky.social•102 days ago

are you saying the name is... Orwellian?

heartforjustice.bsky.social•102 days ago

What a shame that this happening in real time and no one is able to stop it.

antiquequaalude.bsky.social•102 days ago

But do it using AI replacing as many people as possible - he'll say chopping the workforce of Twitter shows he can do it successfully (even tho it's failing hard) - and delivering far shittier outcomes for everyone that's not already really rich.

insomniac-nat.bsky.social•102 days ago

If we can all see it, can it be countered?

tenn-i-see.bsky.social•102 days ago

I have 20 years of government service. I have 10 years till I can retire. They will have to buy me out.

bzendry.bsky.social•102 days ago

https://youtu.be/YoVqbuCihAM?si=pRoNXdBd-JrPsD0L

thrasybulus42.bsky.social•102 days ago

It's always a grift with these people. Follow the money. The name of the department "DOGE" is a way to promote his crypto currency for example.

jrosew.bsky.social•102 days ago

Since the federal workforce hasn’t grown since the 1950s, I mean, this is the reality of what we live right now! To make it worse would be maddening. And to destroy the political capital needed too to *expand* the civil service to improve efficiencies! It’s so frustrating.

dogginmagalowtboyz.bsky.social•102 days ago

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/11/23/trump-autocrat-elections-00191281

mangycoyote.bsky.social•102 days ago

It’s always about greed. In Texas, it is cheaper for the state to build roads as opposed to toll companies. Texas hasn’t raised the gas tax in decades so the majority of new road projects are toll roads. When a company files bankruptcy, guess who bails them out

https://www.texastribune.org/2016/03/02/sh-130-toll-road-files-bankruptcy/

jamarinerfan.bsky.social•102 days ago

doesn't louis dejoy have a company that could assist the post office if they fail??

fiphysician.bsky.social•102 days ago

I'm a huge fan of Elons! I'm not so sure about his cronies, but I reserve my judgment because, of course, we need to gut the federal workforce if we don't want to bankrupt the country, and DOGE is about cutting waste. Do you actually think he will try to benefit from the waste he just cut?

seanob88.bsky.social•102 days ago

You can cut every federal worker and get to 3% of his $2t target. You also won’t get a SSA check, tax refund, passport, payroll for soldier or border agents, no healthcare for seniors

beemuledc.bsky.social•102 days ago

Same thing Reagan and Bush started with "outsourcing" and the rise of Beltway Bandits

absolutspacegrl.bsky.social•102 days ago

📌

theonlymike.bsky.social•102 days ago

Which is why he wants to go after agencies like NASA, who live in a space he already exists in with his current contracts. He’s diminishing their spending to his own benefit. Oligarchs gonna oligarch.

ciaogirl9.bsky.social•102 days ago

Pay everyone shit wages for in office only work, with 12 holidays, no childcare or health insurance

carolcdt.bsky.social•102 days ago

This 👆

wonkypops.bsky.social•102 days ago

Boris Johnson and his cronies tried to do this in the UK with the NHS and the court cases are still ongoing. It might be different in the US though, with corporate capture of a 6/3 MAGA SCOTUS making up the law as it goes along.

grandmasheila.bsky.social•102 days ago

It's called privatizing the federal government and it's going to be a disaster on a scale we can't even imaging, because our government has never be in the hands of venture capitalists & asset strippers before.

chrrybmb81.bsky.social•102 days ago

Also to privatize as many govt agencies as they can (e.g. US Postal Service. Remember how that fiasco turned out). Never trust/help Musk; he’ll stab you in the back imo.

wargarurumon.bsky.social•102 days ago

The moment trump won my biggest prediction is that elmo would rob the taxpayers blind

wersula.bsky.social•102 days ago

This is just what LNP did to our public service and training institutions etc. privatize and give to mates!

nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social•102 days ago

For billionaires there is two kinds of government spending: giving money to billionaires and "waste"

Fire government employees and hire billionaires's companies to produce less work for more cost and you've converted waste into productive spending!

eyegah.bsky.social•102 days ago

America does so many things better than other nations, no one should be surprised that we’re crushing the corruption also.

susanbolles.bsky.social•102 days ago

LOGCAP see Halliburton / Dick Cheney

dennis-moore.bsky.social•102 days ago

I agree.
It's greed.
Never want more than you need.
A working class hero is something to be.
If you want to be one,
then just follow me.
https://youtu.be/Huq1_pHGl8A

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